Award winners from the recent Hackcess to Justice legal hackathon are working hard to fulfill the main goal of the event: Improving access for all Americans…
A would-be class action lawsuit against a company that makes wearable fitness-tracking devices highlights the difficulties of obtaining information about the content of a recalled product.
A former patient who is an Orthodox Jew is pursuing a lawsuit against a suburban Chicago hospital and a rabbi working there because his leg was cremated after being amputated…
Corrected: The nation’s top military court has agreed to hear the appeal of a Kansas airman sentenced to eight years in prison for exposing others to HIV.
A disaster-relief mobile app that provides individuals with legal information, resources, and forms for assistance. An interactive tool that calculates whether a user is eligible for indigent legal services, as…
Quaker Oats has agreed to remove trans fats from its Oatmeal to Go and Instant Quaker Oatmeal products as part of a lawsuit settlement that doesn’t include money for those…
The California Supreme Court has ruled that Alzheimer’s patients and their families are not liable to home health-care workers for injuries caused by the patients, if the employees were warned…
A federal appeals court has enjoined a Mississippi law requiring hospital-admission privileges for abortion-clinic doctors because it would have closed the state’s only abortion clinic.
A group called the Satanic Temple is claiming the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision gives its followers an exemption from informed-consent abortion laws.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association has agreed to up a medical screening program for all current and former athletes as part of a $75 million settlement in a suit claiming…
Pamela Harris, a visiting law professor at Georgetown University, was confirmed on Monday to the Richmond, Va.-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
The Senate usually considers judicial confirmations in…
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